Special Lectures and Programs

Theatrical performance “Way to Heaven”
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Plot deals with Red Cross observations of Nazi concentration camps, particularly Theresienstadt camp. Discussion led by Dr. Ellen Umansky to follow performance. (Additional performances will be September 25th-28th at 8:00 p.m.)
Regina A. Quick Center Wien Theater, 2:00 p.m.
Tickets Required. Seating limited to 120. Cost: TBA. Call (203) 254-4010.
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures

Rabbi and Author Lawrence Kushner

2013 Scholar in Residence “Tales of the Mystical God: When the Sacred Appears Within the Everyday”
Monday, October 7, 2013
Scholar in residence at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, CA
Dolan School of Business Dining Room, 7:30 p.m.
Complimentary Admission. Limited seating. Call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066 after September 2nd.

Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert
Girls in Trouble
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Multi-instrumentalist and composer, Alicia Jo Rabins, with bassist Aaron Hartman, fuses American folk music and underground rock with stories of biblical women.
Regina A. Quick Center Black Box Theater, 8:00 p.m.
Tickets Required. Call Quick Center Box Office at (203) 254-4010.
Co-sponsor: Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

Rabbi Eric Yoffie

Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture
“American Jews Look at a Changing Israel: Peace, Prosperity, and Religious Pluralism”
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Author and past president of the Union of Reform Judaism.
Dolan School of Business Dining Room, 7:30 p.m.
Complimentary Admission. Limited seating, Call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext 2066 after September 2nd.

Damien Echols and Lorri Davis

Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture “The Long Fight for Freedom”
Monday, November 18, 2013
After nearly 19 years on death row, Damien Echols- one of the West Memphis Three, a trio of teenagers wrongfully convicted of killing three boys- left an Arkansas prison as free men.
Regina A. Quick Center Kelley Theater, 8:00 p.m.
Tickets Required . Call Quick Center Box Office at (203) 254-4010.
Co-sponsor: Open Visions Forum

Professor Lee Shai Weissbach, University of Louisville

Bennett Center Lecture “The Jewish History of Small Town America”
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Dolan School of Business Dining Room, 7:30 p.m.
Complimentary Admission. Limited seating, Call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext 2066 after September 2nd.